OK, I blew through the reading… as I said, it’s pretty basic so that even someone with NO experience can understand it. Since I was doing the tasks as I came to them (some I had already done long ago — like set up a ClickBank account), there wasn’t anything left to do for Days 6 and 7.

Since I want to see if money can be made with little to no money investment on my part (other than the initial fee for joining Kimberley’s program), I have chosen to not choose any of the upgrades that are being offered.

CAUTION: Again, I have to caution you, while Kimberley may have nothing but the best intentions for you, you have to be careful when following any on-line money-making system. You can easily be convinced to plunk down your credit card number for purchase after purchase because they all sound good.

That’s the whole point to affiliate marketing. You want to make everything sound very attractive to the person reading your material so that they will buy and you will make a commission off of every sale.

In order for any product or system to get my official “Gold Star Rating”, I will have to be able to make money with the system without paying for any additional upgrades or products. So, for now, even though I may end up paying a lot more to upgrade later (should I decide Kimberley’s products are the way to go), I’m sticking with the free options only.

So, in 3 hours I have accomplished the following:

• Read the 33-page ebook “My Online Income System“
• Created a new ClickBank account
• Created a free money-making website

Day 9, however, brought me to a sticking point. The action plan asks me to customize my website… an option that, apparently, is NOT available for the free site. This is the first of several *fails* of the system that I ran into.  See days 10-12 for more.

Day 10 deals with Google Analytics.  Again, since the free website cannot be edited in any way, Google Analytics code cannot be pasted onto the website, so traffic cannot be tracked.

Day 11 deals with Google Adsense. Now, in Kimberley’s defense, she doesn’t recommend you use Adsense for her system and says this is for information only.  Good thing, since once again, you can’t add the code to your free website.

Day 12 deals with Aweber. Not only is does Aweber come with a monthly fee, but again, you cannot add the code to your free website. There is, however, an option for visitors to provide their name and email address for a “free report” which means that SOMEONE is collecting the names and email addresses of visitors to your site for their mailing list — but not you.

Now, I highly recommend investing in a good auto-responder at some point in your internet business building. But, again, in trying to evaluate this system’s ability to generate money for free (beyond the initial purchase price), I won’t be using an auto-responder.

Understand, there is a cost involved with this experiment. I will drive traffic through my marketing efforts that will pass right on through and I won’t be capturing any leads. This isn’t something I would recommend you do long-term if you want repeat business (the ability to sell additional products to these same customers in the future).

Day 13: Submit website to Yahoo.

Day 14: Informational only, no tasks to do.

Day 15: A 39-page ebook to read.

I’m going to stop here for now. So far, I give MOIS 3 of out 5 stars.

The good:

• This system truly is designed so that ANYONE can follow along
• This system provides a lot of good, basic information on internet marketing
• The forum is well-organized so that you should be able to find answers to your questions without having to ask

The bad:

• This system truly is designed so that ANYONE can follow along. So, if you have any experience at all, you’ll feel like some of it is a waste of time.
• The free website is VERY limited.
• For a “free” system, there are a lot of links to products that you need to buy in order to completely follow the “free” system.

The ugly:

• One wonders if Kimberley’s income is more related to affiliate sales driven by her system (Pro website, Aweber) than by websites that you will learn to make with her system.
• Maybe it’s just me, but I get annoyed with typographical errors when reading printed books, or ebooks.

OK, I’ve got homework to do. Glad I’m fast-tracking this system. If I wasn’t, I’d probably be tempted to get onto the next Bright Shiny Object already, since I’ve done 2-weeks of the Action Plan and not generated a cent yet (but could have spent lots of them on recommended products!).